Individual Earth Songs
Do you know of other outstanding songs or albums that
are not listed here but should be? If so, please send information or a demo
to me for evaluation. Contact me at:
harold (at) planetpatriot.net.
Favorites - Albums with a
symbol indicates songs or albums that I think are exceptionally outstanding!
If you'd like to hear some of these Earth Songs, go to Audio Sources.
- "Air Mail Pollution" by Dan
Berggren, on his album Mountain Air.
- "Amazon (Let This Be a Voice)" by John
Denver
on his Different Directions album, as well as
the John Muir
Tribute CD.
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"Amazon" written by Bruce Watson, performed by Eric Bogle on Voices in the
Wilderness, 1990.
A lament about the burning of the Amazon, destroying rain forests to convert them to cattle ranches.
- "Anthem for the Earth" by Robert Alder, on his album, Blue Ribbon Ready
available on Amazon.com, iTunes, cdbaby.com, etc. A Singer-Songwriter calling us to love our home, and laying out some strategies to address environmental issues.
- "Before the Earth Disappears" written and performed by Dennyvan.
A call to save Mother Earth. Lyrics and MP3 download or streaming mp3 available from Dennyvan's Ampcast.com site. - "Be
The Rain" by Neil Young - plea to "Save the planet for another
day..."
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"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
Also recorded by:- Máire Brennan on her 1994 album, Misty Eyed Adventures
- Amy Grant on her 1994 album, House of Love
- Sara Hamman on her album Breath By Breath
- Sugar Beats on their album 21 Really Cool Songs - Fresh Versions of Classic
Rock 'n' Roll for Kids
- Ian & Helen C, on their album, Big Yellow Taxi (A New York Buskers
Tale)
- Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton.
- Big Yellow Taxi on their album, A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
- "Appleseed John" on the 1964 New Christy Minstrels's album Land of
Giants - A song about Johnny
Appleseed.
- "Call Me the Whale" by Paul Kaplan, performed by Bill
Oliver on
Have to Have a Habitat
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"Calypso" by John
Denver
from the album
Windsong - about Jacques Costeau's ship.
You can hear John
Denver
sound clips on Amazon.com.
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"Cement Octopus" by Malvina
Reynolds, performed by
Pete Seeger on
the album
God Bless the Grass, which
has just been re-released on CD!
- "Chief
Seattle" Audio previews: (Real
Audio) (MP3)
by Meridian
Green on her Live from Caspar album. Full Mp3 download
available for purchase at eFolkMusic.com.
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"Children of the Universe" by John
Denver
on his Seasons of the Heart album.
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"Chinook
Blues"
by Alice De Micele on her
album, Demons and Angels.
Tells the first-person story of the hazards faced by a migrating Chinook Salmon.
- "Come Blow Your Horn" by Tom Chapin on his album This Pretty Planet -
A great song about every species' inherent worth.
- "Coming of the Roads" by Billy Edd Wheeler, from the album Flowers and
Stones; also performed by Peter, Paul and Mary on their album Songs
of Conscience and Concern.
- "Cry of the Wild" by Gary Bowman - from the album Gary
Bowman's Song of the Animals, Download Lyrics
& MP3 soundclips from the artist's website (off-site link)
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"Cows with Guns" by Dana
Lyons.
This song hilariously imagines what it might be like
if our livestock decided to fight back and had automatic weapons to do it!
The lyrics can be read
online, but trust me, it's more fun just to buy the album and listen, or hear
the soundclips! The rest
of the website is fun to explore too!
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"Coho" by ZunZun from their album Flabbergasted-
humrous and thoughtful, tracing the life of the coho salmon on the epic journey
to the sea. Also available as a musical play.
- "Defend
the Earth" by
Alice De Micele on her album, Searching.
- "Don't Cut Me Down" by Olivia Newton-John, on her album Gaia - A tribute
and plea for the old-growth forests. Eloquent lyrics and beautiful singing.
"Earth Anthem" by
Stephen Longfellow Fiske This song is available on the album,
Stephen
Longfellow Fiske from Amazon.com. You can listen to sound samples and buy
the poster by clicking on the image at the right.
- "Earth
Pledge" by Earth
Mama (Joyce Rouse)
A "bonus track" offered on her album, Grass Roots!, now available from the iTunes Music Store:
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"Earth Day Every Day" by John
Denver
.
You can hear John Denver sound clips on Amazon.com. - Earth's Our Only
Home by
Elliott Madriss, on his album Cherish
the Earth. Saving the planet is so simple even a child should
understand it, but this is not "children's music" but a thoughtful presentation
of the hard facts of the need to preserve our only home!
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"Earth Patriot" by Howard Shapiro
-
Earth Day Song by
David F. Saphra
- "Earth Song" by Alchemy
VII. This great song is a hard-driving song in four parts. Available
for streaming
on www.mp3.com, and on their 2002 album The Magick and their 2002
album White Raven Absolutely inspirational and unique. You might
call this "New Age Hard Rock" - lead singer's Gina's beautiful voice is evocative
of Lisa Thiel's bell-like tones, but totally unlike soft "new age" music,
this is accompanied by drums, bongo, voice harmony, and hard-driving electric
guitar. "Do you hear the earth song?... connect with her energy, go with
her flow..."
- "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson. Perhaps more of a Peace Song than an Earth Song, the lyrics of this song also bemoans the loss of elephants, whales, and forest trails. I think better than the original is a version by Nemo Shaw available on YouTube which uplifts & transports the listener to higher realms. Beautiful sounding and with a nice video accompaniment, the song features entrancing angelic voices, as well as vocals & piano performed by Nemo Shaw.
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"Ecology
Song", written and recorded by Stephen Sills on his Stephen Sills
2 album.
"Mother nature made it green/Prettiest place you've ever seen/ People don't know what they need" -
"Evergreen, Everblue" by Raffi (1990, Homeland Publihing (CAPAC)) on his album,
Evergreen, Everblue.
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"Expanding Universe" by Eric Idle, performed by Dana Lyons and John Seed on their
album, At Night They Howl at the Moon: Environmental Songs for Kids. Educational
song about the revolving earth, sun, and galaxy, with a final reminder to "Sink
your roots deep into reality, Dance your life for Planet Earth."
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"The Flower That Shattered the Stone" by Joe Henry & John Jarvis. This great
song has been recorded by John
Denver, Olivia Newton-John and other artists.
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"Fly Away" by John
Denver.
You can hear John
Denver sound clips on Amazon.com.
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"Forever Wild" by Walkin' Jim Stoltz on
his album Forever Wild (1987, Lone Coyote Records)
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"For the Beauty of the Earth" by
Folliott S. Pierpont, 1864, (music by Conrad Kocher)
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"Foxfire Suite" by John
Denver on Different Directions album.
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"Fragile Day" by Wilderland (Kat Sanchez and Scott Blum). Motivated as a positive response to the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill disaster, all proceeds from the sale of this song benefits 3 charities that are helping with the habitat affected by the spill. The song mourns the devastation with the lyrics, "In the sea water below / Fish are dimming while they're swimming / Blackened ocean of foam..." and goes on to speak about healing. There are 2 versions of the song, an electronic version and a folk version.
Available
on iTunes
Watch the Fragile
Day video on YouTube.
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"Freedom Reigns" by Aro Veno - available on The Burn Sisters, Close to Home album.
- "Friend
to the Earth" by Chris Ellis - from
Permaculture Musicians.
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"From Way Up Here" by Malvina
Reynolds, performed by
Pete Seeger on
the album
God Bless the Grass, which
has just been re-released on CD!
- "Gaia" by Olivia Newton-John, on her album Gaia - Beginning with the
sounds of the forest birds and rain, the voice of Gaia swells to not a plea
but a command from the Earth Goddess:
"Respect Me, Respect Me, I need you to protect me, For it is you not me, Whose
fate is in jeopardy!"
A powerful new song you MUST experience!
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"Garden Song" written by David Mallett (1975, Cherry Lane Music)
recorded on David Mallett's Inches and Miles album, and by many other
musicians, including John
Denver, Peter Paul and Mary, Maria Muldaur, Nu
Myth, and many others
- "God Bless the Grass" by Malvina Reynolds, performed by Pete Seeger on the album God Bless the Grass, which has just been re-released on CD!
Lyrics excerpt:
God bless the truth that fights toward the sun,
They roll the lies over it and think that it is done
It moves through the ground and reaches for the air,
And after a while it is growing everywhere,
And God bless the grass.
- "God Bless the Grass" by Malvina Reynolds, performed by Pete Seeger on the album God Bless the Grass, which has just been re-released on CD!
- "The
Gifts of Earth" words and music by Frances LeBeau - the Official
State Environmental Song for Louisiana, adopted in 1990 - Louisiana
Revised Statutes, Title 49, Section 155.2 (which contains the lyrics).
- "The Great Green Earth," - written by Fred
Small
to mark the 25th anniversary of Earth Day.
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"Green City" by Stephen Longfellow Fiske on his Visions and
Stephen Longfellow Fiske albums.
This song is available on the album,
Stephen
Longfellow Fiske" by Stephen Longfellow Fiske at Amazon.com.
- "Greenland's Melting to the Sea" by Tom Nielsen - satirical folk song about climate change and pollution.
- "A Happy Song About Global Warming by Jill Sobule (YouTube link) - This is a funny satirical song about global warming where everyone is sun-bathing in Central Park Manhattan in January. Part of the TED series, from 2006.
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"Have to Have a Habitat" by Bill Oliver (1982)
This
is an enviornmental classic!
- "Hooray
for Hetch Hetchy" by Bill Oliver (2005)
This
is the latest John Muir-inspired song by our best Eco-folk-rock musician,
a beautiful and moving plea for restoring John Muir's beloved Hetch Hetchy
Valley
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"I Am a Dolphin" by Jay Mankita (1991,
Low Budget Butterfly Productions)
- "I am the River" by Dan
Tyler on his album I Hope" - A Nashville-style song celebrating
a river's wandering and urging its waters be kept clean. "If a river lives,
it can die." The song has been chosen as the theme song for Tennessee
WaterWorks!, Center for Environmental Education, a statewide organization
to promote clean rivers and streams.
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"If I Had Wings" by Golden
Bough on their Album, Contemporary Songs - the Night Wind. "Sing for
the love of life and all it's giving...." Traditional melody with lyrics by
Paul Espinoza.
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"In
a World" by
Alice De Micele on her album, Searching.
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"Islands" by John
Denver on his Seasons of the Heart album.
-
"John
of the Mountains"
by Mathew Werner, performed by Mariposa.
-
"Just A Little Rain" (also known as "What
Have They Done to the Rain?" by Malvina
Reynolds,
performed by Joan Baez, The Searchers, and others. (1962, renewed 1990, Schroeder
Music)
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"Katie's River" by Jennifer Berezan, on her album Borderlines (1992, Flying
Fish Records)
- "The Keeper" by Barleycorn, on their album, Green and Gold:
Free in MP3 format from emusic.com
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"The Last Leviathan" words and music by Andy Barnes, Publisher: Friendly Overtures
Ltd. © 1986 Friendly Overtures.
- A haunting lament by the last of the great whales.
Performed by Golden
Bough on their album, Celtic Music from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany,
CD II (1998), and also performed under the title "The Last of the Great Whales" by
many other groups (some 75 in all!) including the Dubliners, Steven Quigg and
a wonderful version by Solas on their album The Hour Before Dawn (
Free MP3 from emusic.com.
Lyrics are also available - Offsite-link] -
"Let's Save the Animals" by Paul Falgares and Liza DiSavino (1993)
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"The Lorax (In Laytonville)" by Meridian
Green on her album In
the Heart of This Town (From StringBender
Records) - This cajun-y tune is based on a true story about a small logging
town's effort to ban the acclaimed Dr. Suess book about a little being who tries
to "speak for the trees.:
Listen to Streaming
Audio version of this song in Real Audio format
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"Love Is the Master" by John
Denver on his One World album and reprlayed on other collections such
as Portrait and The Country Roads Collection. A beautiful song
about ""he wilderness..." where "your life is everything you want it to be."
- "Lullaby for the Earth - written by Frances Aubrey and performed by Betsy Rose. This version of the classic lullaby "Hush Little Baby" is designed to motivate people to vote for candidates who will promote Earth-friendly policies and legislation. Its goal is to help people connect the health of the Earth with their children's future. Betsy Rosehas written and recorded many songs about the Earth.
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"The Matriot Anthem" by Chris Highland
- an International anthem for living in harmony with the Earth and all its people,
sung to the melody of "America the Beautiful."
- "Medicine
People" by Bear Dyken - on Clan Dyken's album,
Family Values (1989, Dyken Music, BMI, Forward Productions) Visit
Clan Dyken website.
- "Mercy Mercy Me" � by Marvin Gaye, on his
1971 album, What's Going On.
This song gently laments, "Oh mercy mercy me/Oh, things ain't what they used
to be no, no/Where did all the blue sky go?/Poison is the wind that blows from
the north and south and east."
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"Mighty Big Ways" by Rodgers (BMI) performed by The New Christy Minstrels on
their album The Definitive New Christy Minstrels (Disc 2). Praise to "a
land of plenty, a land of beauty, a land that we can all share," acknowleding "that
the "Good Earth brings and lays at our feet each day" all these things attributing
it to "His mighty big ways." (If I could, I'd change the lyrics to "She has
mighty big ways." because I think they are really singing about Mother Nature.)
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"Morning Has Broken" by Eleanor Farjeon using traditional Gaelic melody (1957,
Harold Other Assoc.Inc.), performed by Cat Stevens on Teaser and the Firecat.
- "Mother Earth" by Betsy Rose on her album Sacred Ground. A catchy melody, Betsy has a beautiful voice, with a bit of background chorus & group clapping; great for singing along. "It's time for us to mother our Mother Earth."

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"Muir
Power to You" by Bill Oliver - Free
MP3 or on John
Muir Tribute or his albums Better Things to Do
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My City Was Gone by The Pretenders
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"My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)" by
Pete Seeger -
on the album
God Bless the Grass, which
has just been re-released on CD!.
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"My Land is a Good Land" by Eric Anderson, performed by
Pete Seeger on
the album
God Bless the Grass, which
has just been re-released on CD!
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"My Rainbow Race" by Pete Seeger (1970, Sanga Music). With the refrain, "One
blue sky above us, One ocean, lapping all our shores, One earth so green and
round, Who could ask for more?" this song confirms the reality that we all
share this planet. This wonderful song acknowledges that "Some want to take
the easy way: / Poisons, bombs! They think we need 'em." but then confirms
the essential truth that that theocrats of all stripes deny: "Don't they
know you can't kill all the unbelievers. / There's no shortcut to freedom." The
remaining lyrics provide inspiration that shows there really is a way to have
peace on earth - it is actually simple: "learn to share / What's been given
to me and you."
Unfortunately a performance version of this song seems currently out of print, except for Donovan's rendition on the tribute album Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger. However, you will find the lyrics and the catchy melody in Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook, available from Sing Out.
- "The Natural Order of Things" by Alchemy
VII. Available for streaming
on www.mp3.com, and on their self-titled album Alchemy VII. A
hard-drivin' and fun "blues" song sung by "Ma Ma Earth" herself. It is about
the current state of the earth from her perspective.
- "Need More" by Alchemy
VII. Available for streaming
on www.mp3.com, and on their self-titled album Alchemy VII. This
is a heavy medium tempo metal rock song about the destructive, throw away
attitude of always needing more, which has lead to so much of the devistation
of our planet.
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"New Hampshire Naturally" by Shaw Brothers
(Official State Song) on their Album Flight Without Wings
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"O Earth Beautiful" by Stephen Longfellow Fiske on his Visions and
Stephen Longfellow Fiske albums.
This song is available on the album,
Stephen Longfellow Fiske" - Stephen Longfellow Fiske at Amazon.com.
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"Old Man River" - with new lyrics about chemical plants on the Mississippi and
their toxic wastes,
performed by The
Limeliters, in their album,
Global Carnival
(1992, West Knoll Records) (out of print).
- "Once there Was" by Dotie Gittelson - A lament, written in 1970, how "Once
there was land as nature had planned" but now "The land that we knew is no
more."
- "One Family, One Home" by Betsy Rose on her album Sacred Ground. A powerful protest song against cutting a tree down.
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"One with the Land" by Dick McCormack
- Our Blue Planet by
Kerry Richardson - A lively celebration of life, sung by Richardson's elementary
school students.
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"Over in the Endangered Meadow" by Sally
Rogers (1989, Round River Records),
on her album Piggyback Planet: Songs for a Whole Earth"
- "Paiutes
Mourn and Pinyon Pines" by
Cary Griffith (May, 2011, MySpace) - A mournful country-western style tune
lamenting not only the loss of Hetch Hetchy Valley, and its magnificent Black
Oaks, but the Pinyon Pines planted there by Paiute tribes long ago.
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"Paradise" by John Prine
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"The Picnic of the World" by Tom Chapin, on his album Mother Earth. Lyrics
by John Forster, Music by Jacques Offenbach. Take a powerhouse classical melody,
add dozens of nation's names, and what have you got? What else? - the picnic
of the world "all sitting on the same big blanket, with the same big basket,
full of problems and annoyances, but all knowing at the deep down heart of it,
we're all a part of it, the picnic of the world?
- "The People Are Scratching" - word by Ernie Marrs and Harold Martin, music
by Pete Seeger. A classic tale of ecological relationships and the cascade
effect by unwarraned poisoning. Available on Seeger's signature album, God
Bless the Grass
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"A Place in the Choir" - written by Bill Staines,
from Staine's albums
Redbird's Wing
(Philo PH-1118), 1988 and
The First Million Miles,1989,
Rounder Records
One Camp St., Cambridge, MA 02140, and
Bridges, Red House Records, P.O. Box 4044, St. Paul, MN 55104.
This last album includes a hilarious narrative "The Porcupine Talks to Itself" which
explains that portion of the lyric in "A Place in the Choir."
Check out a clip from Bil Staines and six other artists here:
My favorite version is performed by the Limeliters on their album, A Mighty Day! , 1996. West Knoll Records
- "Plant
Me a Tree"
by Joe Wise, on his album Music for Kids: Best of Joe Wise,
Vol. 2. This album also has a version of Bill Staine's song Place
in the Choir
. Listen to sound clip and buy online below or buy from iTunes:
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"Pollution" by Tom Lehrer, available on
That Was the Year that Was,
(1965, Reprise Records) You can view a video
of Lehrer performing "Pollution" on YouTube, which is now
available on DVD. Years ago there was a superb professional video of this song
synchronized with scenes of American pollution, but I haven't been able to find
it since. But lots of folks have created home-made versions on YouTube of this
hilarious song.
- "Power" by John and Johanna Hall, from their album Such is Love; also
performed by Peter, Paul and Mary on their album Songs of Conscience & Concern.
"Give me the spirit of living things... but take your atomic poison power away!" -
"The Rainbow
Road Song" by
Rosie Emery [A mp3
clip is available.]
- "The Rape of the World (Mother)" by Tracy Chapman, on
her New
Beginning album (1995).
-
Requiem for the Giant Trees by Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen and Priscilla Herdman
on their album Voices. Download from iTunes Music Store for 99 cents!
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"The Rivers" by
Cheryl Wheeler
on her album Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar.
Cheryl laments, "Laden with garbage from decades ago/The Rivers can poison us." - "Rockin in a Weary
Land" by Lorraine Lee. Performed by Priscilla Herdman on her album Darkness
Into Light
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"Rocky Mountain High" by John
Denver and Mike Taylor.
- "Rocky Mountain Song" by W. Bay
- "Run See the Sun" by Steve Schuch and Carol Fletcher
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"Saltwater" by Julian Lennon. - Among others, recorded on Judith Durham's Always
There
album. "We are a rock revolving around a golden sun, we are a billion children rolled into one; so when I hear about the hole in the sky, saltwater wells in my eyes..."
- Save
The World
by George Harrison - "We've got to save the world | Someone else may want to use it | So far we've seen | This planet's rape, how we've abused it | We've got to save the world."
- "So
Long Garden Dream" by Michael
Tomlinson, on his album Still Believe. "It's over now unless
we open our eyes."
- "Song for the Nation" by Fathead on his album Blues Weather proves that not all Earth Songs are in the folk or singer-songwriter genre - this thoroughoing "blues" song asks us the "clean it up."
- "Sierra" by
Kyle Vincent on his 2003 album, Solitary
Road.
Where have you gone John Muir?, Mother Nature cries her weary eyes to you. The acoustic guitar driven "Sierra," was inspired by the works of John Denver and John Muir. It is Vincent's plea to promote peace and caring for our planet. Also available:- Lyrics by Kyle Vincent
- MP3 (96 kbs - low quality)
- Flash Slide Show with the Music by Carolyn Scott
- "Somebody's Habitat" by Joyce Rouse (Earth
Mama) on her album Under
the Rainbow. Upbeat melody
tells the story of what happens when we cut too many trees, and poses the
solution to love our babies by loving some other babies' habitat.
- "Song
of the Wilderness" [mp3 sample] by Dan
Berggren, on his album One
With the Water.
- "Swimming to the Other Side" by Pat
Humphries.
- Swimming to the Other Side' The Evolution of Pat Humphries' Modern Folk Anthem by Marika Partridge - essay and audio from NPR's All things Considered
- Streaming Real Audio of the song - from NPR
- MP3 -
from www.pathumphries.com
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"This Land is
Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
Sally Rogers
has added some great environmental lyrics to this song
on her album Piggyback Planet: Songs for a Whole Earth"
- "Tree
Song: for the Sisters of the Siskiyou" by Patrick
Dodd,
a tribute to the (mostly) elderly women who were jailed for blockading a logging
truck to defend old growth forests in southern Oregon against the Forest Service's
so-called "Biscuit fire recovery project" (read: "timber sale").
Don't miss the Quicktime® video of
Dodd singing this with the Sisters at their second blockade! For more
information, see the Siskiyou
Project.
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"Saltwater" by Julian Lennon. - Among others, recorded on Judith Durham's Always
There album.
"We are a rock revolving around a golden sun, we are a billion children rolled
into one; so when I hear about the hole in the sky, saltwater wells in my eyes..."
- "Silent Ruin" by Olivia Newton-John on her album Gaia - A song written
for a documentary, "The Last Whale", Olivia changed the word "whale" to "wild" for
the album because she recognizes all the planet;s creatures face the same
plight.
- "The Eagle and the Hawk" by John Denver and Mike Taylor.
- "The Song of the World's Last Whale" by Pete Seeger - Imagine hearing the last humpback whale sing from a sailboat. This unrecorded song ncludes a messge of hope: "If we can save Our singers in the sea, Perhaps there's a chance To save you and me."
- "Tapestry" by Don McLean - "Every thread of creation is held in position ... By still other strands of things living..."
- "Take Me Home" by Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter on their album Take Me Home (1994) Shenachie/Cachet Records). - A beautiful song about the beauty of nature.
- "Throwing Stones" by John Perry Barlow performed by The Grateful Dead
- Think Like a River" by Barry Hertz, bhertz@direct.ca on
his album Sure
Cure
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"To All My Relations" by Bear Dyken - on Clan Dyken's album,
Family Values (1989, Dyken Music, BMI, Forward Productions)
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"To the Wild Country" by John
Denver.
You can hear John
Denver sound clips or buy the album from Amazon.com.
- "The Tree" by Dana Lyons from his album At Night They Howl at the Moon:
Environmental Songs for Kids. A moving song from the "first-person" point
of view of a 800 year old growth tree, nurturing life for hundreds of years
only to be threatened by a bulldozer.
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"Use It Up" by The
Limeliters on their album,
Global Carnival
(1992. West Knoll Records), and Until We Get it Right (forthcoming) -
A satire - "Plenty more where that came from..."
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"The Web of LIfe" by Walkin'
Jim Stoltz
- "We Can
Run" by Grateful Dead. Lyrics By: John Barlow;
Music By: Brent Mydland
- "We can run but we can't hide from it |
Of all possible worlds we only got one, we gotta ride on it |
Whatever we've done we'll never get far from what we leave behind." Buy the Mp3 of We Can Run.
- "We Did
It" by Nancy Schimmel. A great song about how we can solve global warming.
Nancy says, "I agree that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but
I also think we need optimism of the heart as well as pessimism of the mind
to be of any use."
- "What Will It Take" by Karen
Lehner, on her 1991 album Still Waters.
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"When Fall Comes to New England" by
Cheryl Wheeler -
from her album, Driving Home (1995, Philo) -
A beautiful song!
- "When
the North Pole Melts" by Captain Sea Level . A satirical song about
global warming, addressing the question of what will Santa do when the North
Pole melts.
A grim question, conveyed in a most humorous Beach Boys-style harmony!
You can also download words, chords for two guitars, or the sheet music for
the five voices on the recording. Originally recorded in 1988, it was re-released
in 2004 because its message is even more relevant today.
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"Whose Garden Was This" by Tom Paxton
This song sends shivers up and down my spine. It has been recorded by many artists,
including John
Denver, Tom Paxton, and others.
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"Wild Country" by Bear Dyken - on Clan Dyken's album,
Family Values (1989, Dyken Music, BMI, Forward Productions)
- "Wilderness" by Eric Bogle, - on Voices in the Wilderness,1990.
Includes the stirring refrain, "Save the Wilderness! It's a part of us, the part that sets us free!" -
"Wind on the Water" by Graham Nash
This "save the whales" song may be heard on the album, MFQ LIve in Japan by the Modern Folk Quartet -
"Windsong" by John
Denver.
You can hear John
Denver sound clips, including Windsong, or buy the album from Amazon.com.
- "You Can't Clearcut Your Way to Heaven" by Darryl Cherney from his album They Sure Don't Make Hippies LIke They Used To!"
Folk Songs (Anonymous authors)
- "God of the Earth, The Sky, The Sea"
- "Home on the Range" - You know the first verse, but have you heard all five?
- "I Love the Mountains" (round)
- "Land of the Silver Birch"
- "The Bird's Return"
- "'Tis Springtime"
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